Mome Wrath
02 Feb 2018
Re: No Data on some watch lists iii have restricted to 29 the number of stock you can hold in a portfolio,any more and you get "no data" and hours of work to reconfigureyour lists.Also, they have denied Recognia to the common user.Well done iii. Nice one.Tick up if you've been caught short so iii can assessthe extent of the misery caused.
fillmyboots
01 Feb 2018
No Data on some watch lists Hi, Is anybody else getting this message?"Presently, we are missing data for the following: LSE; London Indices; US Indices"
WEE WATT
01 Feb 2018
Re: 2018: A Look Ahead... Everyone seems to be very upbeat about 2018.Hopefully the transition of YUME will benefit all shareholders.
2br02b
01 Feb 2018
2018: A Look Ahead... [link]
oilovlam
28 Jan 2018
Re: 10% fall Annoyingly, the last trade was 287p and III is showing that as the SP (+5p on the day). But since III SP's are all over the place, I never noticed the real SP had fallen.
oilovlam
28 Jan 2018
10% fall Any reason why the SP fell almost 10% yesterday........what's this about good news from YuMe.....have we even bought YuMe yet?
Bribon
27 Jan 2018
Re: Yume Release What releases please? Any links?
loafofbread
27 Jan 2018
Yume Release A couple of decent releases late Friday night.Looks like Ted and the rest of ROne have been keeping us in the dark about how well we are doing!No wonder YUME signed up and Tosca bought another shed load.Not sure we would have ever reached these lows if the market had been informed earlier.
Tricky_Dicky
21 Jan 2018
Re: The Challenges Ahead Hi Oilovlam,This sounds like Zuckerberg is more concerned about a decline in people’s use of Facebook than anything else. He is trying to realign Facebook more as a social platform and less of a media/news outlet.The idea is that many FB users, or potential users, are being put off by being bombarded with fake news and adverts.But what could be better for the likes of R1 / YuMe than the chance to gain higher revenues from a more loyal bunch of FB users who are a n increasingly stable target audience meaning they can charge higher prices to advertisers.Win-Win all round - admittedly after some initial adjustments!
oilovlam
21 Jan 2018
Re: The Challenges Ahead Tricky, hasn't Facebook changed its algorithms so that they are less aggressive in their advertising.....is there likely to be a customer shift away from 'in your face' advertising and how would that effect YuMe/RTHM combo?
Tricky_Dicky
20 Jan 2018
Re: The Challenges Ahead So, what are the challenges ahead?First I believe it is true to say that almost all major companies, for example:IBM, Apple, Lego, McDonald's, Amazon, to name a few, were either losing large sums of money, were on the edge of bankruptcy or lost sales as a result of competition at some stage.IBM failed to prepare properly for the PC revolution and suffered annual net losses that reached the billions — a record of $8 billion in 1993.After a transformation IBM is now more of a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company, it recently reports profits of 10's of billions / year.Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy in the late 90's until Microsoft’s $150 million investment helped it get the money it needed to reinvent itself and change the technology space. And McDonald's re-invented itself after a book published in 2001 painted that company as being involved in ‘the dark side of the all-American meal'.No longer is McDonald’s only seen as the go-to place to grab a Big Mac loaded with 500-plus calories; its image is now much more health-conscious.It is clear that the really successful companies are ones that are constantly reinventing themselves.Successful companies, in our case ad-tech ones, will be forced to adapt, change or die, as technology continues to improve, and based on their customers’ ever-changing demands and expectations. The only ones which can survive will be the ones that can continually re-invent themselves and attract funding when necessary.R1 would not be where it is now, on the verge of a return to profitability, without having attracted sufficient funding in the past and re-inventing itself.We are certainly not 'out of the woods' yet but the chances of success must surely be increasing.Staying stuck as the old Blinkx would neve have worked out as the technology and customer demands have changed.Trust was brought into question, by the likes of Edelman, and the company responded by ensuring that fraudulent activity, often through no fault of its own, was addressed by layers of security and filtering.R1 geatly expanded its customer base and via the additions of Perk, Radium and now Yume (in the pipeline) and sales strategies embarked upon via processes such as customer-loyalty and Influencer marketing.Media brands and advertisers are being given the opportunity, via R1-owned and operated mobile apps and websites, to harvest a huge variety of business potential from consumers, achieving greater engagement, loyalty, and conversion, in the process.Speaking about the impending acquisition of YuMe, Ted Hughes, the CEO of R1, had the following to say:"Through YuMe, RhythmOne gains access to premium video supply including emerging, high-value connected TV inventory, unique customer insights, cross-screen targeting technology and established demand relationships. We believe this combination will give RhythmOne the resources, relationships and talent to drive value for its shareholders, and a true return on investment."Eric Singer, chairman of YuMe, “The combined company will have a strong financial profile providing a solid, scalable foundation upon which to accelerate growth and profitability”RhythmOne plus YuMe will certainly create one of the largest independent digital video advertising marketplaces - but for how long it remains independent is another matter altogether.
Tricky_Dicky
19 Jan 2018
The Challenges Ahead Adobe and AppNexus plan to give marketers supply-chain transparency from the DSP to the SSP by partnering on a pilot program.Adobe Advertising Cloud will reveal all fees taken by the DSP, including the platform fee and any add-ons, as well as AppNexus’ bill to the publisher, which will help marketers track media dollars through the supply chain.Of course this has to be welcomed, but will it make much difference? It does not mean deals cannot go through in other ways, behind closed doors, and fraud remains abundant with some 8 billion dollars thought to be made annually and illegally by numerous dodgy practices.The remnant ad tech companies will need to continue to grow by acquisitions and by forming some sort of alliance with the big players but they will also have to forge a niche market of their own into areas that the likes of Google and Amazon are not party to, otherwise their raison d'être will be lost forever.In other words, it is no use building up all-singing-all-dancing platforms just as the big players are doing as the saller players cannot hope to compete with them and will always play 'second-fiddle' on that level.I know that R1 has other strings to their bow and we hope and trust that R1 has areas of expertise and markets that are profitable and largely unavailable to the big players, because otherwise the writing is on the wall.
Tricky_Dicky
12 Jan 2018
Tosca nibbles YuMe The following was announced yesterday on Reuters'Toscafund Asset Management LLP Reports A Passive Stake Of 7.2 Pct In Yume As Of Jan 3'.I presume Tosca had to wait until after the F-4 announcement by R1 recently and yet it has taken some time for the news to get out.Tosca are buying into YuMe before the acquisition has completed and it will have certain advantages:1. The number of shares that can be registered in favour of the transcation will grow.2. Tosca will obtain these shares against the 29% of R1 that will be diluted after the acquisition.What the new percentage holding will be is beyond my immediate comprehension but it must still range under 30% in the future incarnation of R1.What this means for the rest of us, less than 20% smaller investors, remains to be seen.Whether Tosca will sit on the sidelines under 30% or arrange a buyout of some nature is a concern, of course, and one that BB has already expressed with some regret.
Janissery
09 Jan 2018
" A Look Ahead" From The Rythmone Blog - Dated 8/1/2018 Hi All - an upbeat , if somewhat anodyne selection of thoughts from staff across the organisation - I have been "here" for eons hoping for jam ...and maybe we shall get a raft of it at some point this year ..... [link]
ajacko
05 Jan 2018
RNS- offer period Offer period open for YuMe share holders until 1st February. Merger progressing under the original terms.
